Foldable smartphones and 5G will produce the next sales boom: Gartner

During the third quarter of 2018 smartphone shipments totaled 389 million units, up just 1.4% when compared to the same three-month period in 2017. According to a new report from Gartner, though, 5G and foldable smartphones will be responsible for the next sales boom.

In the smartphone market’s current state, consumers appear to be holding on to devices for significantly longer due to a lack of new features. This is severely affecting the performance of Samsung which, despite maintaining its number one position, saw a massive drop in shipments of 12.3 million units – this is actually the biggest decrease Samsung has seen since Gartner began reporting smartphone sales.

While most brands are experiencing a slow down in sales, Huawei and Xiaomi appear to be unaffected. During the third quarter, the two brands recorded growth of 43% and 23% respectively, solidifying their second and fourth place positioning. If the two brands continue to grow at their current rate, though, they could eventually overtake rivals and move into first and third place respectively.

As mentioned above it seems people are hanging on to their devices for significantly longer. With 5G networks and foldable smartphones just around the corner, though, it’s claimed that consumers will soon be more open to the idea of upgrading, thus creating a sales boom. By 2020 its forecast that 5G smartphone shipments will total 65 million units. Foldable devices, on the other hand, will take a while longer to gain traction due to the lack of support but should eventually become mainstream products.

God, some people are never happy. I literally just grabbed the first image I found of two flagships devices.

The insinuation that my articles are biased... honestly, get a life. Read through my articles. You'll see there is none of that. Almost everything I write and do is objective. And If I ever add my own opinion it's because I believe it's required (not very often).

Unless enterprises adopt folding phones for their company top employees, at $1500+, o domt see it booming.
The only way folding phones become the norm is if they get the price down.
5G? Well that will depend on where you live.
But 5G hardware is gonna be expensive, and it seems it better to wait and everyone adopt it at the same time so that prices drop immediately.

And not just that. Whenever an iPhone is connected to a WiFi and is using it, somehow it renders the network useless for latency-sensitive stuff. latency is almost doubled because of it. So it's not just the Intel modem.

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Like 3D TVs.
I think 5G is going to be tough to get working well. Some day it'll sell phones, but not yet.
Folding phones... let's see the desirable implementation. I think it will be easy to make a novelty phone that no one actually wants. Let's see done well.

For users to care about the new devices, they need to have new useful features; neither 5G or foldable phones have that. So far not even the standard authority knows nothing about 5G advantages in the mobile phone (we know about IoT, but that’s for our refrigerators) while folding devices... I like the idea, but such a device should have double the battery of today (something is yet to come for at least 1-2y) and half the width for a gain of a single inch in display, well I don’t think I would pay for that, now now at least.

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